In the middle of the road where the light posts are, those are the 3-foot high concrete barriers that were acting as a dyke. I didn't see the source of the water when I was driving by but I did some surfing later:
... apparently it was a water tank that collapsed at a construction site near the road according to this website.
... or a burst pipe according to this website. UPDATE: Good old Gulf News has changed their article; no longer says it was a burst pipe.
... and apparently it happened “yesterday” according to this article which was posted on August 25th and would imply that this happened on the 24th (since I was actually there when it happened on the 25th, me thinks someone was fibbing about the “yesterday” part! The quality and reliability of the news here leaves something to be desired.)
Also of note in that last article is that, instead of showing photos of the subject of the article ... the flooding, the traffic, the clean-up efforts ... they elected to show a photo of the Engineer from the traffic department (RTA) whom gave the quotes ... huh?
Luckily no one was hurt in this incident and traffic was still crawling along going towards Abu Dhabi (but the other direction towards Sharjah was closed). The rest of my day-trip was uneventful.
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